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I just had a virus caled

AntiVir Solution

I don't know how it entered my computer but it was there, i couldn't open anything, The virus kept saying i had over 100s of viruses and wanted me to buy the software.
Everything i tried to open on my computer it said it was a virus, even MSCONFIG.
I logged out of the user on the computer i was on (Our family computer uses the same user all the same one)
I went onto the guest user and i did a few things and i guess i eliminated it for now....

It was really scary cause if i didn't eliminate it before my dad got home (in 1 hour he will be home now) He would Explode in anger at me!

Anyway while i had the virus the first thing i did was run to my grandma's room, my grandma has a wall with Important people to me. (religiously)

Some i don't even know like ministers from other churches.
But the ones i knew, ST. Mary, and Jesus were there, and i prayed and asked them to help me out here,
And they did!
My computer is virus free,,, for now!

That's how scared i was with this virus on my computer! It was the worst virus i have ever seen.


So if you see AntiVir Solution on your computer go on your computers guest and attempt to fix it, because on the guest you are virus free, so you can go on the internet to look for solutions.
Anyway i will restart my computer now to double check to see if it is fully gone.		2010-07-26 22:07:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

Try installing Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to delete any malwares or dangerous files 2010-07-26 22:13:00

Author:
Oddmania
Posts: 1305

Try installing Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to delete any malwares or dangerous files

I downloaded that for that ****ing Malware Doctor rogue. Luckily anyone who isn't a mom could have guessed it was a rogue.		2010-07-26 22:16:00

Author:
qrtda235566
Posts: 3664

I downloaded that for that ****ing Malware Doctor rogue. Luckily anyone who isn't a mom could have guessed it was a rogue.
i knew immediatly what it was.

so malware bytes isn't a virus
Well what does it do exactly that windows defender can't?		2010-07-26 22:19:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

hmm this is weird indeed.

But you sure you didn't have one of these guys near?
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/funny-pictures-you-have-a-new-virus.jpg		2010-07-26 22:20:00

Author:
Chump
Posts: 1712

I downloaded that for that ****ing Malware Doctor rogue. Luckily anyone who isn't a mom could have guessed it was a rogue.

I can assure you this program isn't a malware, it's got me out of trouble a lot of times.

hmm this is weird indeed.

But you sure you didn't have one of these guys near?
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/funny-pictures-you-have-a-new-virus.jpg

No I'm not gonna thank this post for making me laugh. Damm I can't help it...		2010-07-26 22:23:00

Author:
Oddmania
Posts: 1305

wait your kidding about the steal passwords thing right?!?!?!? my dad has his paypal on the computer D:

k but my computer that is/was infected is not connecting to the internet, i restarted the computer again. So its not fully operational.
Im on our other computer.
Oh god i only have 30 minutes to fix it :eek:		2010-07-26 22:27:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

I can assure you this program isn't a malware, it's got me out of trouble a lot of times.

I know, I downloaded it to get rid of Malware Doctor, which is rogue security software.

Malwarebytes= Good

Malware Doctor = Bad		2010-07-26 22:28:00

Author:
qrtda235566
Posts: 3664

MalwareBytes seems to be the only one that can detect the rogues.2010-07-26 22:29:00

Author:
Arkei
Posts: 1432

I just had a virus caled

AntiVir Solution

I don't know how it entered my computer but it was there, i couldn't open anything, The virus kept saying i had over 100s of viruses and wanted me to buy the software.
Everything i tried to open on my computer it said it was a virus, even MSCONFIG.
I logged out of the user on the computer i was on (Our family computer uses the same user all the same one)
I went onto the guest user and i did a few things and i guess i eliminated it for now....

It was really scary cause if i didn't eliminate it before my dad got home (in 1 hour he will be home now) He would Explode in anger at me!

Anyway while i had the virus the first thing i did was run to my grandma's room, my grandma has a wall with Important people to me. (religiously)

Some i don't even know like ministers from other churches.
But the ones i knew, ST. Mary, and Jesus were there, and i prayed and asked them to help me out here,
And they did!
My computer is virus free,,, for now!

That's how scared i was with this virus on my computer! It was the worst virus i have ever seen.


So if you see AntiVir Solution on your computer go on your computers guest and attempt to fix it, because on the guest you are virus free, so you can go on the internet to look for solutions.
Anyway i will restart my computer now to double check to see if it is fully gone.

I had that virus. ****ing hated it, too. Here's what I did:

1.Go to Start > Control Panel > Uninstall a program.
2. After that, uninstall any programs that you recently downloaded. It may be the cause.
3. Delete unfamiliar ones. Sometimes random programs install without permission.
4. You're done.

If it was a file (which I think I had one as a file), then do this:

1. Go to Computer > Local Disk ( C: ) > Windows > System32.
2. Delete any files that you know don't belong there (ex Trojan_horse).
3. Close and restart the computer.

It's what I did and I was able to have my laptop working again. Those virus scanning programs sometimes don't work, so I just use them to check what the fie name is called so I can delete it later on.

I hope that helps. 		2010-07-26 22:30:00

Author:
CyberSora
Posts: 5551

I know, I downloaded it to get rid of Malware Doctor, which is rogue security software.

Malwarebytes= Good

Malware Doctor = Bad

Ah yeah sorry man, I misread your post 		2010-07-26 22:34:00

Author:
Oddmania
Posts: 1305

I once had a really convincing popup telling me I had 3 viruses.

Luckily I'm a grammar nazi and I spotted a grammatical error - I then knew it wasn't legit, for Bill Gates would never allow such a thing!!		2010-07-26 22:42:00

Author:
resistance1
Posts: 812

i think its gone now i will try malware bytes tomorrow because i dont want it running when my parents are here, my mom just got home, she came early, it was a close call :eek:2010-07-26 22:46:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

D: I got that one twice in the last few weeks! lol It's a particularly nasty little thing. As was said malwarebytes is the thing for it. The funny thing is it's like no you can't run x, it's infected, buy me! I couldn't even run task manager I was like The easiest way for me was to restart, then open task manager before it started up, end the process then run malwarebytes, antivir solution go byebye. Both times I was in ie explorer, piece of crap!2010-07-26 23:39:00

Author:
OneEyedBanshee
Posts: 1370

I had a virus once that made it so that Google sent you to random links.

It was torture. I realized how much I need google.		2010-07-26 23:40:00

Author:
Jaslow
Posts: 775

I had a virus once that made it so that Google sent you to random links.

It was torture. I realized how much I need google.

You know what would've been ironic? If it sent you a link to an anti-virus program like Malwarebytes. 		2010-07-27 00:10:00

Author:
CyberSora
Posts: 5551

It mainly sent me to housing websites.2010-07-27 00:13:00

Author:
Jaslow
Posts: 775

This reminds me of a similar "fake antivirus" virus I had to deal with at work (because they use the wonderful Symantec pro-virus suite).

It would randomly warn of fake virus infections and tried to prove it by opening Internet Explorer and attempting to navigate to bad websites periodically. Of course, being the smarter programmer I had immediately disabled the network connection beforehand when I first suspected an infection, so that it wouldn't spread to other computers through the network. So those attempts failed utterly.

I tried to identify and kill the process in the Task Manager, but the virus would automatically close every program I tried to open. Fortunately, I knew its Achilles' heel. Since it was trying to navigate to websites using Internet Explorer, I knew it wouldn't close a program called "iexplore.exe", so I made a copy of the task manager and renamed it "iexplore.exe". This allowed me to open the Task Manager and kill the virus' processes.

I then simply cleaned up the registry and deleted any executable run on startup that I didn't recognize or was in an suspicious folder.

The moral of the story is: if you're using a bad/out-of-date antivirus, or no antivirus, you have to know how to deal with viruses. It's best to have an antivirus, antispyware and firewall installed though. It saves a lot of hassle.		2010-07-27 01:07:00

Author:
Gilgamesh
Posts: 2536

im having a really bad similar problem, firefox is opening tabs on my computer to infected sites and something is continually letting in crud, me and my dad tried for a week, hacking at it and tried just about everything to get rid of it, i think like a week ago my dad gave up and i just don't use that computer anymore D: so now im stuck with ps3 browser and occasionally use my dads computer hhhaaaallllppps we have Mcaffee security plus, oh another thing, now windows defender pops up with an error on start up saying it can't work basically. Its a mess 2010-07-27 01:22:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

im having a really bad similar problem, firefox is opening tabs on my computer to infected sites and something is continually letting in crud, me and my dad tried for a week, hacking at it and tried just about everything to get rid of it, i think like a week ago my dad gave up and i just don't use that computer anymore D: so now im stuck with ps3 browser and occasionally use my dads computer hhhaaaallllppps we have Mcaffee security plus, oh another thing, now windows defender pops up with an error on start up saying it can't work basically. Its a mess

If it wont let you do anything try going on the computers guest account, i think most windows computers have that now.

I got so scared my mom got on the computer, and after like 10 seconds, she was like
"Mark why isn't this working?"
I looked at the screen and it was a glitch with the facebook login screen and all she had to do was refresh the page		2010-07-27 01:27:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

I have a mac now, and have no problems with virus's ever.

I did get a fake virus once. I clicked on this link, and it sent me to this wierd window (it was actually a PC virus scan, so it kinda tipped me off), and it said I had a virus detected and that their software could prevent it from doing anything. I lol'd and clicked back.		2010-07-27 01:30:00

Author:
Jaslow
Posts: 775

im having a really bad similar problem, firefox is opening tabs on my computer to infected sites and something is continually letting in crud, me and my dad tried for a week, hacking at it and tried just about everything to get rid of it, i think like a week ago my dad gave up and i just don't use that computer anymore D: so now im stuck with ps3 browser and occasionally use my dads computer hhhaaaallllppps we have Mcaffee security plus, oh another thing, now windows defender pops up with an error on start up saying it can't work basically. Its a mess
Boot into safe mode with networking, download malwarebytes, everything else is garbage compared to it.		2010-07-27 03:01:00

Author:
Arkei
Posts: 1432

I had that virus. ****ing hated it, too. Here's what I did:

1.Go to Start > Control Panel > Uninstall a program.
2. After that, uninstall any programs that you recently downloaded. It may be the cause.
3. Delete unfamiliar ones. Sometimes random programs install without permission.
4. You're done.

If it was a file (which I think I had one as a file), then do this:

1. Go to Computer > Local Disk ( C: ) > Windows > System32.
2. Delete any files that you know don't belong there (ex Trojan_horse).
3. Close and restart the computer.

It's what I did and I was able to have my laptop working again. Those virus scanning programs sometimes don't work, so I just use them to check what the fie name is called so I can delete it later on.

I hope that helps.


Yeah thats a bit of a pain and you might delete stuff that is unfamiliar yet essential or miss other things that need to go.

For windows users:

If it is something that appears in add/remove programs then the best tool to use is Revo Uninstall. It'll not only clean out the program but also every other little link it had to show that it was ever on your PC, all the dll and registry files and hidden stuff that other uninstallers leave behind.

It's also a great way to re-use limited time demos over and over again.

Funny extra:
I went to a couple of websites before that have popups scanning my computer for viruses (looks like genuine windows scan)...... you have 34 infected files and 4 known viruses click hear to remove...

HA haha HAHA AHA AHAAHHa ha!

I'm running LINUX!! scam FAIL!		2010-07-27 03:30:00

Author:
Strangepom
Posts: 445

This virus wasn't in add/remove programs 2010-07-27 03:33:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

It looks like you got off litely, there are multiple versions of this virus out there, some worse than others. The problem is the scam actually works and they make millions of dolors a year.
My friend got a very similar virus on his laptop, he had to format his drive and install a new operating system to get rid of it. Luckily that was around win7 release so he got that on it.
I actually like this virus, as difficult as that is to say it is impressive to see people make real money out of something like that. Anyways glad you managed to get rid of it.		2010-07-27 03:36:00

Author:
robotiod
Posts: 2662

i agree with whoever said, malware bytes is a cracking little program even thats got rid of stuff that avg cant even manage 2 deal with :O2010-07-27 03:54:00

Author:
ghostrider135
Posts: 259

Well im glad robotoid, idk what i would have done if it destroyed the computer! I cant wait for tomorrow to know i completly removed it was malware bytes2010-07-27 04:05:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

I was actually watching anime from random websites (how smart am I?) . And for weeks they were fine. Until one day I got to a website where it had all the episodes of the anime i was watching. So then I was just clicking "next episode""next episode""next episode" and then it all went crazy. pop-ups everywhere saying I had hundreds of viruses and more pop-ups. I was just shocked. I was on my user and I logged off. I logged on to my sister's deleted mine from there. Only my user was infected. It was such a huge relief, until a couple of days later I realized that my summer homework had been on my user so it got deleted. I had to do it ALL OVER again :2010-07-27 04:19:00

Author:
Amigps
Posts: 564

What I find hilarious about mal-ware, is that when it says it's anti-virus, so it "scans" the computer...the thing is, it somehow manages to scan the whole computer in 2 seconds...and find all these "problems". Bleh.2010-07-27 05:20:00

Author:
warlord_evil
Posts: 4193

What I find hilarious about mal-ware, is that when it says it's anti-virus, so it "scans" the computer...the thing is, it somehow manages to scan the whole computer in 2 seconds...and find all these "problems". Bleh.

haha i know, and it says the file names it finds is like
Secret Password stealing Trojan		2010-07-27 05:23:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

well malwarebytes is doin its thing, found 28 infected objects so far all in one place, im just crossing my fingers as nothings worked yet, i really hope i get my computer back btw im just scanning drive C: is that all thats necessary or should i have checked the others2010-07-27 06:58:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

Im pretty sure Drive C: is the only drive unless you have usbs in. Drive C: Is your main hard drive so yes that should be it. I think the virus is still lurking on my computer, but it cant do anything with what i did. It will be executed tommorrow but the inquisitor known as Malwarebytes!! ( Woah i used 2 big words there)2010-07-27 07:07:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

takin awhile but ill give it its time

EDIT: well after an almost 2 hour scan and a frightening 104 infected objects i restarted my computer and started up firefox, windows defender still wont start up, and as i was typing this a tab popped up to "download windows registry defender" site, which im pretty sure is a fraud, im beat i honestly can't understand whats going on >_<		2010-07-27 07:33:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

Anyone ever get the virus that hides all traces of virus',malware,etc.?
thats the one you really have to watch out for 		2010-07-27 12:40:00

Author:
Bremnen
Posts: 1800

I'm not sure if this is a virus, but I've just remembered that my laptop hasn't been working for like six months. My friend was over and she turned it on, and it just didn't do anything. I'd turn it on, and you'd have to press a button (I think it was like F10 or Esc or something), just to get past a blank screen. Once you'd done that you'd get the standard black screen with blocky white writing. When it got to that, no matter what I clicked, it wouldn't do anything helpful. :/

This thread reminded me of it, so I got it down, plugged it in, and tried turning it on, but nothing happened - No lights, nothing.

Any ideas?		2010-07-27 14:00:00

Author:
resistance1
Posts: 812

Couple of weeks back I did a 3 hour scan with malwarebytes only to find nothing, better safe than sorry though.2010-07-27 17:31:00

Author:
robotiod
Posts: 2662

i did a quick scan, and it got 11 things found infected, all which have been deleted. Should i do a full scan?2010-07-27 18:06:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

takin awhile but ill give it its time

EDIT: well after an almost 2 hour scan and a frightening 104 infected objects i restarted my computer and started up firefox, windows defender still wont start up, and as i was typing this a tab popped up to "download windows registry defender" site, which im pretty sure is a fraud, im beat i honestly can't understand whats going on >_<

Well I find you often need one specific software to kill some thing. Malwarebytes is great for that Antivir solution thing, but whatever you have might take something else.

Make sure whenever you start up any software to fight these things you try updating immediately so you know it's up to date.

Another 2 if you haven't tried might catch it as not all find the same thing.

Superantispyware (http://www.superantispyware.com/)
Spybot Search and Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html)		2010-07-27 18:26:00

Author:
OneEyedBanshee
Posts: 1370

Jeez. That virus sounds awful. Just not as bad as this one.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsvpgN0J5nw

I had this virus. I still can't get the hickey of my poodle. 		2010-07-27 18:42:00

Author:
trip090
Posts: 1562

spybot search and destroy 2010-07-27 18:42:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

Well i searched more on google and found some poor guys thread on a help site who didnt get any replies at all but still posted tons of useful information, he had the same exact problem as me and he posted the file that was infected, and disinfected it with Combofix, so ill try that tonight, i scanned the file using malwarebytes and Mcafee with no dice so ill hav to hunt down this Combofix thing, Altho im a bit irked that Malwarebytes took so much of my time (and kept me up till like 12:30) im kind of glad it found that whopping 104 infected objects :O2010-07-27 18:58:00

Author:
Littlebigdude805
Posts: 1924

i dont understand how can a WINDOWS! defender not find anything but a free software find so many! Down with Windows!!!! 2010-07-27 19:02:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

DOWN WITH WINDOWS!! Have a free Linux OS Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/)

Linux has fewer viruses than Macs all are version specific, can run on practically any hardware. It is now as user friendly as windows, has lots of compatible software (open office, gimp, xmms (winamp) etc). and is free! probably won't run some games tho.

Maybe browsing known safe sites is a better option? Antivirus programs slow your machine but it is worth using. I recommend AVG, another problem can come when you load up too many anti-virus, anti-malwarem, anti-spyware programs. There are many options out there pick something good and try to avoid installing too many different things. I personally can't stand Norton, it is a nightmare to re-subscribe.

I get all my dodgy/untrustworthy torrents and stuff with my linux box or you can use VM ware (infected VM's you can just delete the entire machine ).		2010-07-27 22:41:00

Author:
Strangepom
Posts: 445

Try installing Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware to delete any malwares or dangerous files

This.

I had this awhile back, Managed to fix it without Formatting my HDD

Tell me, is the Virus Described as BankerFox?		2010-07-28 00:52:00

Author:
Nurolight
Posts: 918

I believe malwarebytes is mainly for AntiVir Solution 2010-07-28 04:24:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

once i had a bad problem with a virus on a site that i had been on countless times... norton went berserk and said that it was the highest threat rating, and if it had got in, the comptuter was practically toast...

i am SO glad that i have norton		2010-08-02 05:18:00

Author:
theswweet
Posts: 2468

I never understood it, what person makes a virus that's job is to just destroy your computer XD2010-08-02 16:19:00

Author:
Snrm
Posts: 6419

I never understood it, what person makes a virus that's job is to just destroy your computer XD

The nerds in the world just want revenge for being bullied.
anyways, i almost caught a TROJAN it got terminated already and now the annoying norton messages keep popping up saying that its terminated		2010-08-02 16:59:00

Author:
Charlemagne
Posts: 513


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